Saturday, July 29, 2017

Baby dies after days 'strapped in a car seat without food'

A young mother has been arrested after her son died after allegedly spending days strapped to a car seat in her home without food.

Lovily K Johnson has been charged with felony murder and first-degree child abusefollowing the death of her son Noah Edward Johnson at their apartment in Wyoming, Michigan.

Police said Johnson had arrived at the local hospital last week with Noah who was already “clearly deceased and had been for some time”.

In a statement the force said: “Johnson . . . admitted that Noah was under her care and no one else’s care for the last four days.

“Johnson admitted to being at home multiple times a day during that time frame.

“She knowingly and intentionally deprived him of the necessities of life by not feeding him since Monday evening.

“During this time, Noah remained buckled in a car seat on the upper floor of Johnson’s apartment with no air conditioning.’’

The 22-year-old, who is on probation from a conviction for embezzlement from a local business, also has a two-year-old daughter has been placed in temporary social care until she can be put in her paternal grandmother’s custody.

The grandmother, who did not want to be named, said she believed Johnson was mentally ill and “the system failed her”.